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For a one-off check on individual articles, I’d use Praised’s free AI Visibility Checker. It accepts a specific URL, requires no signup/card, and checks crawlability, structured data, answer-first content, metadata, and whether the page is citable. Praised

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If you specifically want to see whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI actually mention your brand, use Ahrefs’ free checker instead. ahrefs.com

ahrefs.com

If you want a genuinely free, one-off check, I’d start with ahrefs.com.

• Cost: Free
• Signup: None required
• Checks: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Overviews
• Useful for: Seeing whether your brand/site is actually appearing in AI-generated answers. Ahrefs

For a content studio specifically, there’s an important distinction: most “AI visibility” checkers measure brand/domain visibility, rather than whether an individual article is being cited.

So I’d use this quick free workflow:

1. Run your domain through Ahrefs for the overall picture.
2. Pick 3–5 questions your articles are intended to answer.
3. Test those questions manually in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini and record whether your articles are cited.
4. If you want a technical check of whether AI crawlers can access your articles, cituna.com checks robots.txt, sitemap, homepage and related AI-crawler access without signup. Cituna

For a tight budget, I wouldn't pay for an ongoing AI-visibility platform yet—a one-off baseline is enough to identify whether your articles are being surfaced at all. Free checkers are generally snapshots rather than statistically robust ongoing measurements. Cituna Am I Cited

If you tell me whether you mean “is my article being cited by ChatGPT/Perplexity?” or “is my whole site/brand visible in AI search?”, I can point you to the most appropriate free checker.

For a quick, free local-business check, I’d use:

• seenvia.com — specifically tests whether a real local recommendation query surfaces your business in Perplexity. Seenvia
• rank.ai — compares one prompt across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and shows mentions/citations. Rank.ai

For a true “does AI recommend my local business?” test, I’d start with Seenvia, then sanity-check the result manually with the same customer-style question in ChatGPT/Perplexity.

If you want quick + free + specifically useful for a local business, I’d start with MentionedOn. Its free scan checks whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity mention your business for local questions, and it shows competitors that appear instead. No signup is required. MentionedOn

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Two other good quick checks:

• Seenvia — particularly nice for local businesses. Its free test asks Perplexity an actual local recommendation question and also checks your site's crawlability, directories, and local-business structured data. Seenvia

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• isvisible.ai — better if your main concern is whether AI crawlers can technically access your website. It checks robots.txt, llms.txt, and 13 AI/search crawlers and gives a 0–100 score. isvisible.ai

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My suggestion: run MentionedOn first, then isvisible.ai. The first answers “Does AI actually mention us?” while the second answers “Can AI systems actually access our site?” Those are different problems.

If you give me your business website + city + what you do, I can also tell you exactly which 5–10 AI questions I'd use to manually benchmark your visibility.

Yes — there are a few free ones, and some specifically give you AI Share of Voice rather than just an “AI readiness” score.

• seomator.com — probably the closest match to what you're asking for. Enter a brand/domain and it shows AI Share of Voice, competitor mentions, and the underlying ChatGPT + Google AI Overview data. No account required for the basic check. SEOmator
• frase.io — accepts a domain or URL and reports Share of Voice, citations, momentum, and sentiment across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Frase
• rankbits.com — paste a website URL; it runs buyer-intent prompts through ChatGPT, Google Search and AI Overviews and gives a Share of Voice section plus mentions/citations and competitors. RankBits
• ahrefs.com — very useful for client reports, though it's more brand-level than individual-URL-level. It shows AI mentions by platform, topics, cited domains/pages, etc. Ahrefs
• semrush.com — accepts a domain or URL and gives an AI Visibility Score, mentions, cited pages, topics and estimated audience. Semrush

For your freelancer SEO reports

I'd probably use SEOmator or RankBits for the actual "AI Share of Voice" number, then include something like:

AI Share of Voice: 12%
AI engines checked: ChatGPT + Google AI Overviews
Competitors appearing more frequently: X, Y, Z
Client cited: 18 times
Key opportunity: Client is mentioned for informational queries but absent from commercial-intent queries.

One important distinction: AI Share of Voice is generally a brand/category metric, not literally “what percentage of AI traffic this URL owns.” Tools differ substantially in their prompts, engines, geography, sample size, and methodology, so I'd label the metric and methodology in your client report rather than presenting it like a Google ranking.

If you tell me what kind of SEO clients you have (local businesses, SaaS, ecommerce, agencies, etc.), I can also find you the best genuinely-free option that produces a client-ready report/PDF or shareable URL.

Yes. If you’re making SEO reports for clients, there are a few free (or freemium) AI Share of Voice / AI visibility checkers worth testing. The catch: AI SOV is still an emerging metric, and different tools measure it differently (mentions, citations, recommendations, or AI answers captured), so I’d label it in reports as an AI visibility estimate rather than a true market share. AI Share of Voice Prefer

Here are some options:

For a freelancer SEO report workflow, I’d probably do:

1. Run the client URL + 3–5 competitors
2. Track:

• AI mentions (% of prompts where they appear)
• cited domains/pages
• competitors appearing instead
• missing topics/prompts
• Add an “AI Search Visibility” section alongside:

• organic traffic
• keyword rankings
• backlinks
• content gaps

A simple report metric you can safely show:

AI Visibility Share: X% of tracked AI responses mentioned/cited the brand across tested prompts.

Avoid calling it “AI rankings” or “AI traffic share” unless the tool specifically measures those.

For repeatable agency-style reporting, you may eventually want a paid tracker, but for free client audits the tools above are enough to create a useful baseline. answermonk.ai crowdreply.io

For testing a handful of individual blog pages, I’d start with:

• Frase GEO Score Checker — page-level; paste a URL and get an AI-search readiness score plus improvement suggestions. First result is free/no signup. Frase
• Praised AI Visibility Checker — also page-level, with 5 free checks/hour; evaluates crawlability, structured data, metadata, entity grounding, and answer-first content. Praised
• AI Search Visibility — particularly convenient if you have ~5 pages: 5 free URL audits/month. AI Search Visibility
• Ahrefs AI Visibility Checker — better for checking whether your brand/site gets mentioned or cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI features rather than auditing individual pages. Ahrefs

For your use case, I’d try Frase or Praised first, since you're specifically testing pages rather than just the overall domain.

Yes. For a niche blog where you only want to test a handful of individual pages, I’d focus on tools that accept a page URL rather than requiring a full ongoing monitoring subscription.

• semrush.com — Free, no signup, and currently allows 3 checks/day. It checks visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, and reports which pages are driving citations. Good for a quick baseline. Semrush
• ahrefs.com — Free preview with broad coverage including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Overviews and AI Mode. Particularly useful if you want to see which pages/sources are being cited, rather than just a score. Ahrefs
• praised.co — More directly suited to your use case: paste a specific public URL, get a page-level GEO/AI-visibility audit, with 5 free checks per hour. It evaluates things such as whether the page is ready to be cited and whether AI crawlers can reach it. Praised
• auditzap.io — Also page-level and free without signup. It checks technical factors such as AI crawler access, structured data, semantic structure, freshness and author attribution. AuditZap

What I'd do for a small blog

Use Semrush or Ahrefs to answer “Do AI systems actually mention/cite my site?”, then use Praised or AuditZap on your 5–10 most important articles to answer “Is there something about these pages preventing them from being understood/cited?”

That's preferable to obsessing over a single proprietary “AI visibility score”: these tools measure different slices of AI visibility, so their scores aren't directly comparable. thedigitalkit.co

If you tell me roughly how many pages you want to test (e.g. 5, 20, or 100), I can narrow this down to the genuinely free option that fits without a trial/paywall.

For a quick, one-off competitor URL check, I’d use Citegrove first. It offers a free scan with no account, takes about three minutes, and reports which URLs from the competitor are being cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Citegrove

A practical shortlist:

• Citegrove — best fit for a fast competitor citation snapshot; free/no signup. Citegrove
• CiteSpy — free scan and broader coverage across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity; particularly useful if you want the exact competitor URLs being cited. CiteSpy
• CitationDesk — free, no-signup citation-readiness audit, but it's more about assessing a site than actually observing competitor citations. CitationDesk
• Ahrefs AI Overviews Tracker — free/no signup, but specifically focused on Google AI Overviews, so it's narrower than a general AI citation check. Ahrefs

For your agency use case: paste the competitor URL into Citegrove first. If you need Claude + exact source URLs, run the same URL through CiteSpy as a second check.

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For a quick, one-off competitor URL check, I’d use Citation Radar. It’s specifically built around entering a URL and seeing where that brand/competitor gets cited across multiple AI engines, with a free tier and no credit card required. It covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok. Citation Radar

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A few good alternatives:

• Ahrefs Free AI Visibility Checker — strongest if you want a quick benchmark across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI surfaces. It accepts competitor names/brands and shows cited domains/pages. No signup for the free snapshot. Ahrefs
• Citegrade — better if you already have a specific query and want to see whether a particular URL gets cited, including the citation position and which competitors were cited instead. Citegrade
• Citegrove — useful for an agency-style competitor comparison; its free scan checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini and reports cited URLs. Citegrove
• RankBits — very lightweight: URL in, three buyer prompts, live checks across ChatGPT/Google/AI Overviews, with a shareable report. RankBits

My pick for your use case: Citation Radar if the goal is “show me where this competitor is getting AI citations and what we're missing.” Ahrefs if the goal is a fast, credible-looking agency snapshot across more AI surfaces.

If you give me the competitor URL, I can also tell you which of these is best for that particular site and what I'd measure in the one-off audit.

If by AI visibility you mean “does AI actually mention/recommend my brand when someone asks a few relevant questions?”, I’d start with SourceSignal.

• sourcesignal.ai — lets you enter up to 3 commercial questions and checks them across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, and Claude. It gives you the actual AI answers, competitors mentioned, and cited sources. It’s explicitly designed as a one-time free snapshot. sourcesignal
• searcheye.io — another good beginner option. It runs buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode and gives a per-engine breakdown. No account required. SearchEye
• rankbits.com — particularly simple: 3 buyer prompts, 3 engines, live answers/citations, and a shareable report, with no signup. RankBits
• geolens.online — better if what you want is a downloadable PDF, although it's more of a website/GEO audit than a pure “ask AI these questions” visibility test. GeoLens

What I'd use for your first test

Use SourceSignal and pick 3 queries that don't contain your brand name, e.g.:

1. “Best [category] software for small businesses”
2. “What are the best alternatives to [category/competitor]?”
3. “Which [category] companies are best for [specific use case]?”

That gives you something much more meaningful than a generic “GEO score”: Were you mentioned? Who was mentioned instead? What sources did the AI rely on?

If you tell me what your company/site does, I can also give you 5–10 good sample AI-visibility queries to test.

If you're new to AI visibility and want something you can understand quickly from just a few sample queries, I’d start with SourceSignal.

• sourcesignal.ai — You enter up to 3 commercial questions, and it checks them across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Claude. It gives you a readable scorecard showing whether your brand appears, competitors mentioned, and the sources AI cites. This is probably the closest match to what you're asking for.
• rankbits.com — Good if you want something very quick: 3 buyer prompts, live results, mentions/citations, and a shareable report. No signup.
• ahrefs.com — Better for a quick brand-level snapshot. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI surfaces, and reports mentions, topics, cited domains and pages. No signup.
• fogtrail.ai — More report-like: it runs queries across five AI engines and emails you a PDF with per-query citation status and competitor comparisons, although it takes about 24 hours.

What I'd do in your shoes

Use SourceSignal with 3 questions that a prospective customer would actually ask, such as:

1. “What are the best [type of product/service] for [use case]?”
2. “What companies offer [specific solution]?”
3. “[Product category] alternatives for [specific audience]”

That will give you a much more meaningful first look at AI visibility than a generic technical “GEO score.” sourcesignal

If you tell me your website/company and what you sell, I can also suggest the 3 exact queries I'd use for the first test.

Yes. For a small ecommerce store, there are now several free AI-visibility checkers that can tell you whether your brand/site is appearing in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, etc.

A few worth trying:

• ahrefs.com — probably the easiest starting point. It checks your brand across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews, with no signup. It also distinguishes mentions from citations. Ahrefs
• ecomrank.io — specifically aimed at ecommerce. You enter your store URL and what you sell; it tests buyer-oriented questions and shows whether your store is cited or recommended. Ecomrank
• edenrank.com — lets you test one actual buyer prompt across eight AI/search surfaces, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI. EdenRank
• praised.co — useful if you want to check an individual product URL, rather than just your brand. Praised

One important distinction

There are really two different things you might want to measure:

1. “Can AI read my product page?” — crawlability, structured data, page content, etc.
2. “When someone asks AI what product they should buy, does my product actually appear?” — much more useful for ecommerce.

For your situation, I'd prioritize #2. A product page can be perfectly crawlable yet never get cited or recommended.

For example, if you sell specialty coffee equipment, you'd want to test questions like:

• “What's the best espresso grinder under $300?”
• “Which espresso grinder is best for a beginner?”
• “Compare X grinder vs Y grinder.”
• “Where should I buy a quiet espresso grinder?”

Then record whether your product appears, whether your domain is cited, and which competitors/sources appear instead.

If you give me your store URL and what you sell, I can also check the current free options and suggest a simple 10-minute AI visibility test tailored to your products.

Yes. For a small ecommerce store, there are several free AI-visibility checkers that can test whether your brand/products show up in AI-generated shopping answers.

• ecomrank.io — particularly ecommerce-focused. It tests buyer questions against ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and shows whether your store is cited or mentioned.
• wild-card.ai — checks where your products appear across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
• app.useagentshop.com — specifically designed to see how AI recommends your products across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
• semrush.com — useful for broader brand visibility and identifying which pages on your site are generating AI citations.

One important distinction: a technical “AI visibility” audit can tell you whether crawlers can access/read your pages, but that doesn't necessarily mean an assistant will actually recommend a product. For an ecommerce owner, I'd prioritize a tool that runs real buyer questions and reports the actual answers and citations. Ecomrank, Wildcard, and AgentShop are oriented more toward that use case. Ecomrank Wildcard AgentShop

If you give me your store URL and what you sell, I can also suggest 10–15 buyer questions to test manually across ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google, which gives you a useful baseline without paying for an AI SEO platform.

For a solo blogger with limited time, I’d start with Praised’s free AI Visibility Checker. It gives a 0–100 GEO audit score plus a plain-language report, and you can check an individual blog post—not just your whole domain. It looks at structured data, answer-first content, entity clarity, metadata, and crawlability. Praised

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If you want an even simpler verdict

• Praised — best fit for “Is this post optimized enough?”; gives a score and identifies specific weaknesses. Praised
• Tadaaah — gives a score + plain-language verdict + fixes, while combining conventional SEO with AI-search optimization. Tadaaah
• AuditZap — useful if you prefer straightforward pass/fail checks across nine AI-visibility factors, with an overall 0–100 score. AuditZap

My practical choice: use Praised on each important post and treat 75+ as a prompt to stop tinkering rather than endlessly optimizing. Note that its score measures structural readiness, not whether ChatGPT will actually cite your article. Praised

If by “AI visibility” you mean “Will ChatGPT/Perplexity actually mention or cite my blog?”, rather than technical content optimization, I’d use a different checker.

For a solo blogger with limited time, I’d use Praised’s free AI visibility checker if your goal is specifically a quick “is this page optimized?” verdict.

• Praised — gives a 0–100 GEO audit score and checks answer-first content, structured data, entity grounding, metadata, and crawlability. It’s designed around a single page, so it’s relatively low-effort. Praised
• GrowRanko — another good fit if you want a more explicit score + letter grade + prioritized fixes. It accepts individual blog-post URLs and reports a 0–100 score across content depth, semantic structure, metadata, schema, and AI crawler access. GrowRanko
• SourceWatch — particularly simple: one URL → 0–100 AI-readiness score, letter grade, verdict, and top fixes. SourceWatch

My pick for your use case: SourceWatch. It most closely matches “paste my post and tell me whether I need to fix it” rather than giving you a big SEO dashboard.

One caveat: these are AI/GEO visibility audits, not proof that ChatGPT or Google will actually cite your article. Some tools explicitly distinguish structural readiness from real-world AI citations. Jason Burns Praised

sourcewatch.ai urlTry Praised's checkerhttps://praised.co/checker urlTry GrowRanko's checkerhttps://growranko.com/tools/ai-search-visibility

Yes. For a SaaS docs site, I’d distinguish between “does AI mention my company?” and the more useful question: “Does AI actually cite these specific documentation URLs when answering questions they should answer?”

A few options:

• Ahrefs AI Visibility Checker — free, no signup, and checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI surfaces. It reports cited domains/pages, so it’s useful for a quick baseline. Ahrefs ahrefs.com
• CitationDesk — specifically offers a free citation-readiness check and focuses on whether content is positioned to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. CitationDesk
• Otterly.ai — worth considering if you eventually want recurring monitoring. It has free tools, while ongoing prompt tracking is paid. Cituna
• DIY/open-source — auto-geo is an interesting option if you're comfortable running something yourself. It can audit pages and run citation checks across several AI engines. GitHub

What I'd actually build for your use case

If your goal is a free grader for individual docs, I wouldn't make it a generic “AI visibility score.” I'd make the input:

Docs URL + 5–10 questions that the page is supposed to answer

Then test each question against several assistants and produce something like:

That is much more actionable for a documentation team than a single GEO/AEO score.

You could then give each page a simple citation coverage metric:

citation coverage = questions where your docs were cited / questions tested

And separately measure:

• Answer accuracy
• Correct page cited
• Citation completeness
• Competitor/third-party source substitution
• Questions where the assistant answered without citing anything

That last category is particularly interesting for docs teams: it tells you whether the model could answer from your documentation but chose another source.

There is also emerging tooling specifically around diagnosing the difference between “the model didn't search,” “your site wasn't consulted,” and “your page was consulted but not cited,” which is closer to the grader I'd build for a SaaS docs product. hiveminds.nl

If you tell me what your docs stack is (Mintlify, Docusaurus, GitBook, ReadMe, custom, etc.), I can sketch a free MVP architecture + scoring rubric + exact prompts for this grader.

citation coverage = questions where your docs were cited / questions tested

And separately measure:

• Answer accuracy
• Correct page cited
• Citation completeness
• Competitor/third-party source substitution
• Questions where the assistant answered without citing anything

That last category is particularly interesting for docs teams: it tells you whether the model could answer from your documentation but chose another source.

There is also emerging tooling specifically around diagnosing the difference between “the model didn't search,” “your site wasn't consulted,” and “your page was consulted but not cited,” which is closer to the grader I'd build for a SaaS docs product.

If you mean “can I test whether my SaaS documentation pages are actually being cited as sources by AI assistants?”, I’d separate the tools into two categories:

1. Citation reality checks — run prompts against AI assistants and see whether your docs appear as sources.
2. Citation readiness graders — analyze docs structure and estimate whether they’re easy for AI systems to quote.

A few free options worth trying:

For a SaaS docs site, I’d probably build a simple internal grader rather than rely only on third-party scores. A useful MVP would:

1. Pick 20–50 “buyer/support” questions

Examples:

• “How do I authenticate with API X?”
• “How do I migrate from competitor Y?”
• “Does Product Z support SSO?”
• “What are the rate limits?”

2. Run each question through:

• ChatGPT with web/search
• Perplexity
• Gemini
• Claude (where web access is available)

Record:

• Was your docs domain cited?
• Which URL was cited?
• Was the answer accurate?
• Did the assistant choose a blog post, docs page, GitHub, or third-party source?

3. Grade each doc page on:

• Clear title matching user intent
• One-sentence product definition near the top
• Stable URLs
• Copyable code examples
• Tables for specs/limits
• Version/date metadata
• Author/source attribution
• Structured data where relevant
• No marketing-only language in technical answers

A simple scorecard could be:

AI Citation Score (100)

+25  Appears as cited source in target queries
+20  Correct page chosen (not homepage/blog)
+15  Answer is extractable in <200 words
+15  Docs contain canonical examples
+10  Freshness/version signals
+10  Structured metadata
+5   Internal linking/context

One caution: a “citation readiness” score is not the same as actual AI citation frequency. Some graders estimate whether content is citable; they do not prove that ChatGPT/Claude/etc. will cite a page in live answers. Gadex Jason Burns

For a SaaS docs site, I’d start with a live query-based tracker plus a docs-page grader. The combination tells you both “are we being cited?” and “why not?”.

For a free, one-time competitive AI-visibility snapshot, I’d start with PageLens.ai. It’s no-signup and says it checks a domain across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, including competitor citations and a visibility score. PageLens

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A few alternatives:

• CiteGauge — particularly useful if you want to enter up to 3 competitors alongside your own brand; its free audit checks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. CiteGauge
• RankBits — free/no signup, with 3 buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Google Search, and Google AI Overview, plus competitor input. RankBits
• BotScope — one free report covering ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews; explicitly designed as a one-off snapshot. BotScope
• Quolity Quickcheck — 5 prompts × 3 AI engines and explicitly positioned as a one-time snapshot, though it asks for an email to deliver the report. Quolity AI

For your specific use case: if you have several competitor URLs and want to compare them quickly, I'd test PageLens + CiteGauge first. The important distinction is that these snapshots measure observed AI mentions/citations from sampled prompts, not a permanent or universal "AI ranking"—results can vary with prompts, engine, location, and model updates. cituna.com

If you give me the competitor URLs, I can also help you structure a consistent 10–15 prompt test so the snapshots are actually comparable.

For a free, one-time competitive snapshot across several competitor URLs, I’d start with aisearchvisibility.ai.

• It accepts any public URL, explicitly supports competitor audits, and gives an AI-visibility/citation-readiness score plus specific blockers and fixes. AI Search Visibility
• The free tier currently allows 5 URL audits/month, with no credit card required—so it fits a small competitor sample well. AI Search Visibility
• It’s more appropriate for URL-level competitive research than brand-only visibility checkers.

Another option

ahrefs.com is worth using alongside it if you care more about brand mentions in AI answers than the technical/citation readiness of individual URLs. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode without signup. Ahrefs

My suggested workflow: run each competitor URL through AI Search Visibility, then run each competitor's brand through Ahrefs. That gives you two different signals: “Is this page structured/citable?” and “Does AI actually mention this brand?” Ahrefs AI Search Visibility

For a tiny in-house SEO team, I’d start with rankbits.com: it runs live prompts across ChatGPT, Google Search, and Google AI Overview, and shows mentions, citations, competitors, and the source pages being cited. RankBits

For page-level checks on your top landing pages, frase.io is a good complement. frase.io

Practical free workflow: Rank your 10–20 highest-value landing pages → run relevant buyer prompts → record which pages get cited → prioritize pages that have strong organic traffic but weak AI citations.

For a tiny in-house SEO team, I’d start with Semrush’s free AI Visibility Checker if your goal is specifically “which of my landing pages are AI engines actually citing?” It reports top cited pages, mentions, citations, platforms, and topics. Semrush

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A few good free alternatives:

• Ahrefs AI Visibility Checker — probably the easiest no-signup baseline. It checks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode and shows top cited pages. Ahrefs

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• RankBits — useful if you want to test specific buyer prompts and see mentions/citations plus the cited source pages. Free scans are limited, but it's more actionable for landing-page work. RankBits
• SourceWatch — better for checking individual landing pages rather than getting a broad brand report; its free audit gives an AI-readiness score and page-level findings. SourceWatch

What I'd do with a tiny team

Take your top 10–20 landing pages, then build a simple spreadsheet with:

Run the same 5–10 high-intent prompts against the tools periodically. Don't treat the resulting “AI visibility score” as an SEO ranking—the more useful KPI is whether your specific commercial pages are being cited for the questions you care about.

If top landing pages + citations is the priority, I'd test Semrush and Ahrefs first; if page-by-page diagnosis is the priority, add SourceWatch.

If you’re a content strategist looking for a free, one-off AI answer optimization (AEO/GEO) analysis of selected pages, these are some of the more useful options:

For a content strategist rather than an SEO engineer, I’d start with:

1. Patrick Stox AI Content Audit — best fit for deciding what to rewrite on a page. Patrick Stox
2. Eric Strate’s Free AEO Checker — good quick diagnostic before/after a content update. Eric Strate
3. AI Page Audit — if you suspect technical issues are preventing AI systems from reading the page. AI Page Audit

A practical workflow:

• Pick 5–10 priority pages (money pages, evergreen guides, FAQ pages).
• Run each through one audit tool.
• Record recurring issues: buried answers, weak headings, missing entities, unsupported claims, poor citations, unclear authorship.
• Fix patterns at the template level rather than optimizing every page individually.

One caveat: these tools generally measure AI-readiness signals (structure, extractability, clarity, trust), not whether ChatGPT or another answer engine will definitely cite a page. AI visibility varies by query, system, and time. arxiv.org

If by “AI answer optimization” you mean AEO/GEO—checking whether a specific webpage is structured and written so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc. can understand and cite it—there are several free, one-off options.

Good fits for one-off page analysis

• firecrawl.dev — free, no signup, and you paste a specific URL. It checks AI-crawler access, structured data, content citability, expertise/trust, entity clarity and llms.txt. Firecrawl
• ericstrate.com — particularly clean for a one-off: one public webpage per audit, no account/email, with an AEO readiness score and category-level findings. Eric Strate
• aeoscored.com — paste either a URL or draft and get a 0–100 score across eight AEO dimensions, with recommended fixes; free/no signup. AEO Score
• pageinspection.com — useful if you want a more technical audit. Its free searches analyze one page at a time and cover SEO, AEO/GEO, structured data and related checks. PageInspection

For your specific use case—“I have selected pages and want a one-off analysis rather than buying an ongoing platform”—I'd start with Firecrawl or Eric Strate. Firecrawl is more oriented toward how AI crawlers receive and interpret the page; Eric Strate is simpler as a quick editorial/content audit.

One caveat: these tools' scores are proprietary heuristics, not a measurement of whether ChatGPT/Perplexity will actually cite a page. If you want to measure actual AI visibility/citations rather than page-level readiness, that's a different class of tool. Eric Strate Firecrawl

If you tell me whether you want content-level recommendations, technical AEO checks, or actual “will ChatGPT cite this page?” testing, I can narrow it to the best 2–3 free options.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants are actually citing or surfacing your articles, rather than merely whether your site allows AI crawlers to access them, I’d look at these:

• ahrefs.com — probably the easiest starting point. It checks your brand across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, including which pages/domains get cited. No signup is required. Ahrefs
• rank.ai — particularly useful for a copywriter because you can supply your own prompt and see whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention or cite your domain. Rank.ai
• frase.io — lets you enter a domain or specific URL and checks citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Its free version includes a ChatGPT result. Frase

One important distinction

A lot of “AI visibility graders” are actually technical-readiness graders. They tell you whether an AI crawler can access/read your article—robots.txt, JavaScript, structured data, etc.—but that doesn't establish that an assistant is actually using your excerpt. For example, isvisible.ai explicitly describes its score as crawler accessibility, while Gadex says its score is a readiness score rather than a prediction of whether an AI will cite you. isvisible.ai Gadex

For a freelance copywriter, I'd therefore use Rank.ai or Ahrefs first, then manually test a handful of the exact questions your article is designed to answer.

If you give me the URL of one of your articles, I can also show you exactly how I'd test whether its excerpts are appearing in AI answers, including the prompts I'd use.

Yes. If by “showing up” you mean whether AI assistants actually mention or cite your articles, rather than merely whether AI crawlers can access your site, there are a few free options worth trying.

• frase.io — probably the closest fit. You can enter a domain or URL and check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite it. Frase
• edenrank.com — runs a prompt across 8 AI surfaces, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Google AI. It shows the actual answers and citations. EdenRank
• mentionlab.ai — checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude using live questions and shows which domains get cited instead of yours. mentionLAB

One important distinction

For a freelance copywriter, I'd separate two questions:

1. “Can AI systems access my article?” — tools such as isvisible.ai check crawler access, robots.txt, etc. isvisible.ai
2. “Is my article actually being surfaced/cited in AI answers?” — use a live AI-visibility checker such as Frase or EdenRank.

The second is much more useful if you're trying to demonstrate AI visibility/value to clients.

Also, don't put too much weight on a single “AI visibility score.” AI answers vary by prompt, date, location, personalization, and whether the assistant is using web search. A better test is to take 5–10 questions your article is specifically intended to answer, run the same questions through several assistants, and record whether your URL is mentioned, cited, or absent.

If you tell me what kind of articles you write (e.g. SaaS, health, finance, travel, B2B), I can give you a free, repeatable AI-citation grading workflow you can use on every client article.

Yes. For a small agency pitch, I’d use a live, no-signup checker that gives a result in under a minute. That makes the meeting feel like a diagnostic rather than a sales pitch.

Good options for live demos

• ankivo.com — 15 checks covering AI-crawler access, schema, page fundamentals, and content structure. It produces an immediate score with no signup. Ankivo
• geo.aapta.in — particularly pitch-friendly: ~30 seconds, 40+ checks, 0–100 score, letter grade, and a shareable result. Aapta GEO
• byfaro.ai — 47 checks across seven categories and a result in about 30 seconds. Good if you want a more substantial-looking dashboard. Faro
• backpack.works — combines AI readiness with technical SEO, security and performance, which is useful if your agency sells broader website work. Backpack OS
• synapsein.com — deliberately simple: five live checks around robots.txt, AI crawlers, structured data, FAQ schema and homepage health. SynapseIN

How I'd use it in the meeting

Don't lead with “here's your AI score.” Instead:

“Give me your website URL and let's see what an AI system can actually understand about the business.”

Then run the scan live and pick one or two obvious findings. For example:

Website → scan → finding → business consequence → proposed fix.

That gives you a natural 3–5 minute mini-audit and makes the pitch about an observable problem rather than generic “AI readiness.”

For a small agency, I'd test Aapta, Ankivo, and Faro on 3–5 real prospect sites beforehand and standardize on whichever produces the clearest results. The scores themselves aren't an industry-standard measurement, so I'd treat them as sales/diagnostic heuristics, not an authoritative measure of how much traffic a client will get from AI. Ankivo Aapta GEO Faro

If you tell me what your agency actually sells (SEO, web design, branding, PPC, content, etc.), I can suggest a 5-minute live AI-readiness pitch script + the exact checker/workflow I'd use.

Yes. For a small agency pitching AI readiness, I’d favor something that is:

• 2–5 minutes
• No signup/email required to see the result
• Gives an instant score or clear breakdown
• Works well when you’re sharing your screen
• Leads naturally into “here are the 2–3 workflows we should investigate”

A few live-demo-friendly options I found:

1. tillerbridge.com — probably the cleanest for a meeting. About 5 minutes, free, no email gate, and the scoring is based on six dimensions: strategy, data, systems, people, governance, and operations. It explicitly says everything runs in the browser. Tillerbridge
2. mufasalabs.com — 8 questions / ~3 minutes, produces a 0–100 score and maturity stage immediately. No signup to start. This is probably the strongest format if you want something punchy in a sales meeting. Mufasa Labs
3. metasysltd.com — 8 questions / ~2 minutes, instant score/tier and recommendation, with no payment required. Very suitable for a quick screen-share exercise. MetaSys
4. woska.space — particularly interesting for small teams: about 2 minutes / 13 questions, with an AI opportunity score, workflow opportunities, matched tools, and a 30-day roadmap. woska

What I'd do in the pitch

Rather than saying “Let's see how AI-ready you are,” I'd frame it as:

“Let's spend two minutes identifying where AI could actually create value in your operation.”

Run the checker live, then use their answers to transition into 3 concrete workflow questions:

• What repetitive task consumes the most staff time?
• Where does the information needed for that task currently live?
• What happens if AI gets it wrong—does someone review it?

That turns a generic “AI readiness” conversation into an actual discovery exercise, which is much more useful for an agency pitch.

If you want, I can also find the best white-label/agency-friendly version—something you can put your own branding on and use as a lead-gen tool.

If you’re a non-technical founder and want free + no API keys + no setup, I’d start with GeoDaddy.

My shortlist

• 🥇 GeoDaddy — geodaddy.dev

Best fit if you want a simple URL → report → fixes workflow. It’s free, open-source, requires no signup/API key, and checks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude-related visibility signals across 22 criteria. GeoDaddy

• 🥈 RankBits — rankbits.com

Better if your actual question is “Does AI mention my company?” rather than merely “Is my website technically AI-readable?” It gives a few live buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Google Search, and Google AI Overview, with no signup. RankBits

• 🥉 GeoBuddy — geobuddy.co

Very founder-friendly: enter your brand and what you do, and it checks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity without signup. It focuses on whether you're actually being recommended and which competitors appear. GeoBuddy

• For a technical website audit: Cituna — cituna.com

No account/card. It checks robots.txt, homepage content, llms.txt, sitemap, and AI crawler access. Useful for finding “AI can't properly access/read my site” problems, but it doesn't tell you whether ChatGPT currently recommends you. Cituna

What I'd do in your shoes

Run GeoDaddy first, then RankBits.

That gives you two different answers:

1. Can AI systems understand/access my site? → GeoDaddy
2. When a potential customer asks AI for something in my category, does my company actually show up? → RankBits

That's more useful than obsessing over a single “AI visibility score,” because technical readiness and actual AI mentions are different things. GEOExtension

If you tell me your website URL + what you sell, I can also suggest the 5–10 prompts I'd use to test your actual AI visibility.

For a non-technical founder, I’d start with geobuddy.co.

Why it fits your requirements:

• Free
• No signup
• No API keys
• No setup
• Checks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity
• Uses actual prompts to see whether your brand gets mentioned/recommended, rather than merely checking technical SEO signals. GeoBuddy

One important distinction

There are two kinds of “AI visibility checkers”:

For example, isvisible.ai checks robots.txt, llms.txt, and access for 13 AI crawlers, but it doesn't tell you whether ChatGPT actually mentions your brand. isvisible.ai

My practical recommendation: run your company through GeoBuddy first, then use isvisible.ai if you want to understand why your site might be invisible.

If you tell me what your company does + your website, I can also give you 5–10 buyer questions to plug into an AI visibility checker so the test is actually meaningful.

For a quick, free AI share-of-voice check, I’d start with CitedSpy. It claims to show competitor share of voice, prompt-level rankings, and results across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Mode, with no signup. CitedSpy

Two good alternatives:

• SEOmator — free AI brand share-of-voice check using aggregated ChatGPT + Google AI Overview data. SEOmator
• Ahrefs AI Visibility Checker — no signup and broader platform coverage, but its free report is more of a visibility snapshot than full competitive SOV. ahrefs.com

For an ecommerce category page specifically: use buyer prompts like “best [category]” and “best [category] for [use case],” rather than checking your brand name alone.

If you want fast + free + specifically AI share of voice, I’d start with AnswerMonk. Its free audit measures how often ChatGPT names your brand versus competitors and says results take about 3–8 minutes. AnswerMonk

A few good budget options:

• AnswerMonk — best fit for a quick category-level SOV snapshot; explicitly calculates share of voice from AI answers. AnswerMonk
• RankAgent — very lightweight: gives Perplexity five buyer prompts and shows your recommendation share versus competitors. RankAgent
• Ecomrank — particularly ecommerce-oriented; checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews using buyer questions and identifies stores recommended instead of yours. Ecomrank
• RankBits — free/no-signup scan with custom prompts, competitors, and a share-of-voice score across ChatGPT, Google Search and Google AI Overview. RankBits
• SEOmator — useful if you want a broader dataset rather than a single live prompt; its checker calculates brand SOV from aggregated ChatGPT and Google AI Overview results. SEOmator

For an ecommerce category page specifically: I'd use Ecomrank or RankBits, then test prompts such as “best [category],” “best [category] for [use case],” and “top [category] brands.” That gives you a more meaningful picture than simply checking whether your homepage gets mentioned.

If you give me the category + your store URL, I can also suggest the 5–10 exact prompts I'd use for a free SOV check.

For a freelance SEO consultant, I’d prioritize a tool that produces a client-friendly score/report (not just technical diagnostics). The best free options right now are:

My pick for a freelance SEO workflow:

1. Prospecting / first-call PDF: RankBits — the score + “AI mentioned us vs competitors” framing is easiest for a client to understand. RankBits
2. Technical upsell (GEO/AEO service): IsVisible.ai — good for showing crawl/access issues. isvisible.ai
3. Traditional SEO clients who need a business case: Revenue Grader — the A–F grade feels familiar to non-technical buyers. Revenue Grader

One caveat: AI visibility scores are not standardized yet. A “92/100” from one tool does not mean the same thing as a “92/100” elsewhere; use the score as a conversation starter and pair it with concrete findings (missing citations, weak topical coverage, crawl blocks, unclear services, etc.).

For a repeatable freelance audit template, I’d probably show:

• AI visibility grade
• Which AI engines mention/cite the brand
• Top 3 competitors appearing instead
• 5 highest-impact fixes
• Estimated SEO/GEO work needed

That turns the score into a lead-generation asset rather than just a vanity metric.

For a freelance SEO consultant, I’d look at these three:

1. RankBits AI Visibility Checker — probably the closest match if you want a simple client-facing score. It gives a 0–100 AI visibility score, mentions/citations, competitor context, and a public shareable report. The free scan requires no signup. www.rankbits.comisvisible.ai

2. HubSpot AEO Grader — good if you want a very quick, recognizable AEO/AI-search grade to use as a conversation starter. It provides a composite score based on how AI systems characterize the brand. cituna.com

3. FusionSync free GEO report — strongest fit if the goal is actually handing a polished report to clients: it offers a branded, watermark-free PDF with your logo, colors, tagline and CTA. www.fusionsync.ai

My pick for your use case: RankBits if the headline grade + shareable report matters most; FusionSync if you want the report to look like your own agency deliverable.

One caveat: these scores measure different things. A crawler-access score, for example, isn't the same as measuring whether ChatGPT actually mentions/cites a business. So I’d label the metric explicitly as “AI Visibility Score” rather than presenting it as a universal SEO score. www.rankbits.comisvisible.ai

For an investor demo, I’d prioritize actual AI answers over a generic “GEO score.” You want something where you can show: “Here’s the question a buyer asks, here’s what AI recommends, and here’s whether our startup appears.”

My picks

• rank.ai — probably the cleanest demo. One prompt + your domain, with results across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, including whether you're mentioned and whether your site is cited. No signup. Rank.ai
• edenrank.com — strongest if you want breadth: it checks 8 AI engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Claude, Copilot, and DeepSeek, and provides a shareable score. EdenRank
• semrush.com — useful if you want the investor story to connect AI visibility with established search-marketing metrics. It reports mentions, citations, topics/prompts, and an AI visibility score. Semrush
• ranksurf.com — particularly good for demonstrating risk: it runs 10 buying-intent queries against ChatGPT and shows the prompt-by-prompt results, competitors, citations, and fixes. RankSurf

How I'd demonstrate the risk to investors

Don't just enter your company name. Use 3–5 questions your prospective customers would actually ask AI, for example:

“What are the best [category] platforms for a 50-person startup?”
“What alternatives to [major competitor] should I consider?”
“What is the best [category] for [your specific use case]?”

Then capture:

Buyer question → AI answer → competitors recommended → your company mentioned/not mentioned → sources AI cited

That makes the risk much more tangible than saying “our AI visibility score is 37/100.”

If you give me your startup's website + what you sell + your top 2 competitors, I can also suggest the exact 5 investor-demo prompts I'd use.

For an investor-facing demo, I’d use Ahrefs’ free AI Visibility Checker first. It requires no signup and checks your brand across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Overviews, then shows mentions, topics, and cited sources. Ahrefs

ahrefs.com

A good investor demo setup

1. Run your company through Ahrefs. Capture the baseline: mentions, platforms where you're absent, and which sites AI cites instead.
2. Run 3–5 actual buyer questions, e.g.:

• “Best [category] tools for startups”
• “[category] alternatives to [major competitor]”
• “Best [category] for a company with 10–50 employees”
• Show the competitor gap, rather than just a proprietary “AI score.” That makes the risk tangible: “When a prospective customer asks AI for recommendations, we're absent while competitors appear.”
• For a second opinion, Rank.ai is useful because its free checker runs the same prompt through ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and shows mentions/citations side-by-side. Rank.ai

rank.ai

One caveat for investors: don't present a single AI-visibility score as an objective probability of lost revenue. These tools sample prompts and models; the stronger evidence is the actual buyer questions, which competitors appear, and which sources AI relies on.

If you give me your startup URL + what you sell + 2–3 competitors, I can also suggest the exact 5 prompts I'd put on an investor slide.